The Worlds of If, The Ideal & The Point of View

These three stories deal with Dixon Wells, a perpetually late playboy who runs afoul of the inventions of his friend and former instructor in "Newer Physics", Professor Haskel van Manderpootz, a supremely immodest genius who rates Einstein as his equal. Contents: The Worlds of If The Ideal The Point of View Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (1902-1935) was an American science fiction writer. His first story, "A Martian Odyssey", was published to great acclaim in July 1934, but he died from lung cancer less than a year and a half later.